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To: steve harris who wrote (378007)	4/13/2008 12:39:51 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575848

"You're the one that didn't have anything to say." I said plenty. Just because you don't understand an argument, it doesn't mean the other person doesn't have one. My position is pretty simple. Living in the US has great benefits. Those benefits cost money. Whining that it is way too expensive for the benefits is just whining. No other country offers anywhere near our benefits at a lower cost. Usually the cost is higher. Now, true, you can say that this or the other is too expensive or not needed. That is what the public debate is all about. To make the flat statement that we could reap the same or even better benefits for a lower cost needs some justification other than just the flat statement. One way to gather justification is to see what others are doing and the cost/benefits ratio they see. There are over 300 countries in the world and every one of them operates differently from all the rest. Now some aren't all that much different, but there are still differences. To ignore their experiences, good and bad is, well, stupid.